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“Sunday at the Mintons”

“Sunday at the Mintons”. By Sylvia Plath. Plot Summary.

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“Sunday at the Mintons”

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  1. “Sunday at the Mintons” By Sylvia Plath

  2. Plot Summary • Elizabeth Minton has returned home to live with her older brother, Henry. Henry is very stiff, mathematical. He is very concerned with directions and punctuality; Elizabeth is not. On a routine walk along the ocean Elizabeth drops her broach pin into the rocky shoreline. The tide is coming in fast and strong and Elizabeth is worried the waves will sweep her pin away. She imagines Henry going onto the rocks to save the pin and a great wave crashing and sweeping him away.

  3. Appearance 1.      Colossus, Ponderous footstep Personality 2.      Fastidious 3.      Controlling 4.      Patronizes her 314, sees her as a child 5.      Stiff, mathematical, rational, logic, mind 314 6.      Male reasoning 311, know the exact date, direction 313 Power 7.      Pen, book, knowledge 311 8.      Position at table: authority P.310 Pick the pin as an heroic act Appearance 1.      Appearance, feminine 2.      Docile 3.      Lightly Personality 4.      Imaginative, day dreaming 5.      Not practical 6.      Lost track of time Nature, scenery 8.      Work, serving her brother 310 Passive Resistance Shut her ears against Herny’s rebuke Henry V.S Elizabeth

  4. Structure • 1.Narrates/ creates the story • 2.Use her imagination re-create reality • 3.Plath (a female write) • 4.Power relationship Tone • 1.Irony

  5. Technique • 1.Elizabeth’s pretending submissive • 2.Eliminate boundary • 3. Language/ thought  gaps

  6. Binary Opposition • 1.Female, feminine/ male, masculine • 2.Appearance • 3.Words • 4.Works • 5.Space: kitchen, room, nature/ study room

  7. Imageries • 1.Ocean • a.Womb • b.Female space • c.Fluid, moving • d.Imagination, unconsciousness, a realm that Henry can not enter

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